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Name: Jennifer
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jenn has posted 8 links and 37 comments on Alkaline Earth since January 06, 2004.
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2004 Nov 22 04:38 (#999): Neal Pollack is popping up everywhere.
2004 Nov 02 11:50 (#919): Bush label.
2004 Oct 17 02:43 (#839):
2004 Sep 16 11:19 (#685):
2004 May 27 03:56 (#303): SUMMER LEAGUE!!!
2004 May 11 10:33 (#266): Finally a mathematical model for marriage.
2004 Apr 27 07:43 (#234): Guide to Geek Girls
2004 Mar 24 10:40 (#176): women's bike seats
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2004 Nov 20 10:59 (#996.2520):Do you think they make the large the average size for me as a marketing ploy? Sort of like you need a size smaller than normal when you buy expensive women's clothes?
2004 Nov 16 10:51 (#983.2471):He looks so sad. I feel really bad for him. He's probably homeless and needs help.
Where are the nicknames from?
2004 Nov 08 09:55 (#933.2288):Also, Nate, if you ike that aerobics video, might I suggest this movie
2004 Nov 08 09:35 (#933.2287):Man Flip, thanks for the warning about that site. "Quantum mechanics do it in leaps?" That's just stupid. I'd hate to have had some fellow physicist walk in and see some retarded joke that doesn't make alot of sense.
2004 Nov 08 09:22 (#940.2286):Yet another reason to go with the penguin: Linux is harder to hack. Maybe next time around we can save the country by letting him count the votes.
2004 Nov 05 11:39 (#929.2267):Dude! I could have lived without that! I have no spare time! Which leads to the question "What am I doing here in the first place?" Okay, feeling guilty.. gotta go..
2004 Nov 03 07:46 (#919.2233):You know, I think I have to disagree with you leroy, despite your argument being quite convincing. I do worry about how Europeans see us. Let's face it, our country is fast going down the toilet. I look at American teevee and all I can think of is Roman bread and circuses. How many people in our universities and research based industries are Americans? We need the brain power we get from Europe and Asia. How long before it stops coming?
I think this whole idea that domestic issues are more important is exactly what got Bush reelected. What did people who make very little money (like my mom and dad and grandma) use to base their decisions on? Domestic policies regarding moral issues. What should they have based their opinion on? Perhaps an even less than basic understanding of world politics. People don't talk about the power of the German Mark anymore. They talk about the Euro. Why? Because there are getting to be enough people on this earth that we all need to work together to stay afloat. America is the guy at the back of the lifeboat eating all the rations and not doing any rowing. This sort of attitude of egotistical isolationism is going to get us nowhere.
I don't think the people who voted for Bush did so because they were uninformed. I think all of us intellectuals did our fair share of campaigning to family and friends. I think the problem is what Americans value. I am in country where you can still see buildings that were destroyed in the second world war and are still not rebuilt. In Belgium and the Netherlands, there is a national holiday on the days the Nazis left those respected countries. Everyday people here are reminded what happens when one country doesn't care about the inhabitants of the others. I don't think Europeans are more informed about Bush and that is why they hate him. I just think they are reminded everyday that war is an atrocity. Yesterday I was told that 90% of Germans are against war, mostly becasue of all the devastation resulting from WWII and the massive amount of CIVILLIAN lives lost. In America, it is only as gruesome as you decide it will be by choosing your news station wisely. It is like we have forgotten all the emotional imagery of Vietnam since there are no longer any visible scars, only black and white text in history books.
Yeah, splat, it is a nice thought to send out money and such to people in these countries. But can we buy back the lives of the civillians killed by our army? I don't think people want us to send them free stuff. I think they want us to stop treating them like our bitches. I think the policies of our government have a much bigger effect on the world and the world's view of us than we do as individuals. Even a large number of indiviuals, unless they be millionaires and not grad students, couldn't really do nearly as much as our government.
Anyhoo, this has been a long horrible post and I did not intend to start such a debate with the funny picture. But arguing is fun, it's sort of a favoured pasttime of us intellectuals, you know?
2004 Nov 03 12:08 (#914.2212):Ooo Natey-Nate! How excited are you for a new Rachel Ray show on Food Network?
2004 Oct 25 12:23 (#876.2117):Don't physicists in general disprove this theory?
2004 Oct 13 12:55 (#815.1952):He's also the composer for the Harold and Maude soundtrack. It makes me so proud to be an American.